Bag end hobbiton

Bilbo's Hobbit hole

It’s early morning and light rain is falling as we depart our motel for a tour we’ve been planning for years but never got around to. Until now. Hobbiton. When The Lord Of The Rings was being made,…

For the forth cross-section in my ongoing series of Middle-Earth locations I really wanted to do Bag End. Arguable the most important location of both the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit books, and films. It's where everything starts and ends for both Bilbo and Frodo Baggins. During the research phase for this image it was amazing to see how many rooms Bad End actually consists of. I chose only to feature rooms that can be seen in the film trilogies. It was a balancing act juggling how much of…

Right now I'm in Auckland, New Zealand, visiting my wonderful cousins. On Saturday, my Dad and I convinced everyone to take a trip to Hobbiton, the film set from both the Lord of the Rings and the Hobbit series. Naturally, I took lots of photos, and thought I would share them here. We arrived at the front entrance and purchased our ticket and map. We then took a Bus from the front down to the set, getting off at a sign welcoming us to the wonderful land of the Hobbits. Once we arrived there…

Good morning, sunshines! Or afternoon. Or evening. Whatever the case may be for you at the moment. I mentioned a few weeks ago that I was participating in Nerd Wards on Ravelry. I posted my first project submission yesterday-- this bee hive tea cozy! It's knit from some of my early handspun, which isn't the softest yarn in the world, but the squishy bee hive ridges improve it a lot. The challenge for this particular project was to choose a character from another kind of nerdiness, then make…

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Making mainly jewellery, when thinking of something to make a male friend, it is quite a poser. Few men wear any jewellery and if they do, then its mainly a small cross or a ring or a small earring etc. But if they aren't really into jewellery, then what I do is largely useless. Anyway, this year I had a friend who was going to attain one of those '0' birthdays. We thought and thought about what we could get him and searched the shops, but to no avail. Men, I find, are notoriously difficult…